Richard Broach, LPC

Richard Broach is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 25 years of experience. He helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, identity concerns, and life transitions. He also focuses on aging and geriatric issues and other areas such as gender dysphoria and end-of-life concerns.

He uses a holistic view to look at a person's situation. He helps clients lay out the pieces of their life much like a jigsaw puzzle. Together they look at current stressors, relationships, work, past hurts, and daily routines to see how those parts connect.

Richard encourages what he calls a SANE lifestyle - attention to Sleep, Activities, Nutrition, and Exercise. He explains how these daily habits relate to emotional and physical well-being and helps people build practical routines. He models these habits in his own life and works with clients to create small, sustainable changes.

Sessions focus on open, heartfelt conversation and on real skills people can use between meetings. Techniques draw from approaches that include acceptance and commitment work, cognitive-behavioral strategies, mindfulness, emotionally-focused methods, and narrative ways of making sense of experience.

He offers services in English and Spanish and is based in Wisconsin. People who want to begin are asked to use the site Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.

How his approaches fit with online therapy

Richard often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and focus on values-based action. ACT can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes.

He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and stress management.

Finding the right approach is a joint process. The therapist works with each person to figure out what methods match their goals and preferences. Sessions typically mix conversation with concrete exercises and plans to practice between meetings.

Confirm the available session options before booking so you know how appointments are delivered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example it can reduce travel time, allow a shorter check-in between commitments, or make scheduling across different daily routines simpler. Licensed professionals adapt tools like mindfulness exercises, values-based action plans, and CBT worksheets to work in virtual sessions, helping people make steady progress without needing in-person visits.